> On another front, A friend using XP had his computer fail. It was in > perennial reboot mode. It had 40G hard disk that was full, and I think > they had unplugged it to stop it when it ceased to work for them. Thanks > to Ubuntu disk I was able to boot the live disk, copy 18 GB of data onto > a backup disk of mine, repartition so that there was a data partition, > and then once I had sorted out XP, get them back working again. But not > for long I fear. Unless they do some data maintenance It will occur > again. >
Can anyone recommend a PC support person/organisation who I can recommend to my friend? Since his retirement on Medical grounds about 18 months ago he has been using friends and his ex-employers IT department to keep things up and running. As a friend I don't want to charge, but also do not want to spend lots of my time sorting him out. His main problem is basically that they do not do any maintenance on the PC's, and his son has stuffed it full of programs like Autocad. Perhaps not appropriate here as it's XP. ( But in my sorting out of his computer it nearly became Ubuntu!) Cheers, Peter -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2011-01-11 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
